Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-12
Country Set Forth-The Now Towns Already
snrinSing Up-The Area Compared
with That of Eastern States
Beaver City Advocate


county infhe state Of Kansas 1t is equally !
we'll adapted to any of the cereals or
fruits, end warmer climate, suitable to |
the raising OF cotton, than any
part of the state north of |
US. Land is selling in Kan
sss from 81 to $50 per acre. In the Neu- |
trail Strip it can be had for nothing, and |
where one will have to wait only short !
time when we will have railroads, faCto- !
RES, schools, churches and large cities,
equal III size and prosperity to any in
staat state. We will be able to get good
Titles to our land before long, no tax
titles to look up, no bonded debts to pay
for railroads, no heavy taxes to pay.
lG Is to the newspaper as much as TO
the rich soil that Kansas owes her present
prosperity. 1t was through them that
the rest CT the world knew OF her won
derful resources. 1t is through the
columns of the paper here that we must
let people know OF the Garden OF Eden
here awaiting them it is through the
columns Of the paper that the people Of
the Neutral Strip invite the home-seekers
OF other states to come and share our
blessings with US, to come and secure
happy homes and princely fortunes; it is
! through the columns of the paper that we
will tell them of the fertile lands to be
Ehed for the asking, of the warm, sunny
fAnd heaith-giviGg climate that we have
There, otathe b 3autltul clear streams that!
20 ,sMer Wet-r eli parts OF our
terffsSFy, OF the new towns spring:
ing up as if by magic and their
wonderful growth into magnificent cities,
Of the improvements going on in the.
different towns, among which we cam
mention Beaver, Benton, Alpine, CIeHf
Lake, Rothwell, Boyd, Grand ValIeya
Fulton Springs, Neutral City, Eagle City,
HaEdesty, Optima aud Mineral City. It is
Though the columns Of the paper that
1--WE tell Of the railroads that are going to
be built through here; that the 57Gi
square miles IN the strip will make 26, 900
valuable farms; thst it Il more than four
times larger than Rhode Island, with q
population of 276,53l; nearly three times
as large SIS Delaware, with a population
OF l46 SOS, and he's l0ll square miles
! more than Connecticut, with population
Of G22, 700, and has more good farming land
and is sble to support q larger pOpula-
, ton than all the states named together.
The Neutral Strip will experience the
greatest boom ever known in the boom
lHg west this fell. Every town will claim
Il PASSED by none, end by December every
!. choice claim along the streams or within
asnumbefo miles OF town will be
tAkeHifp. Town lots Will be selling in
most of the places by the front foot, in
}stead of by the block, and claims will sell
for hundreds of dollars If in a good loca-
fign. Everything goes to show that such
EWil1 be the case, and there Ia no reason
JwhY such should not be the case. East
RI erD Kansas has had less rain this season
!. thansWEshave had, and immigrants are
not going to stop there and pay fancy
prices fer land when tuey can come a lit
tie farther west and get Just as good land
' by locating upon it,
~ BILL TO OPEN THE NEUTRAL STRIP.
! The following bill has been prepared
and will doubtless De introduced in the
r Senote by Senator P. B. Plumb Of Kan
: sgs, and in the House Of Representatives
= EbY4I IN. S. r. Peters of the Seventh Con-
gEessi9al,al district o: Kansas.
, AN ACT
to extend the laws Of the United States
over certain unorganized territory south
Of the stste OF Kansas.
n :.$Be II enacted By the Senate and the
:. sHouse OF Representatives Of the United
y States of America in Congress ssenoled
, that the laws OF the United States, except
those providing for presumption, timber
EeHlture and desert land entries of the
public lands, and section 230I of the
Revised Statutes of the United States
providing for the Communication of home
stead to pre-emption entries are
hereby extended over the morgan
azed territory south OF the states Ct
.1Kansas and Colorado, and between
: the Indian Territory and the territory O.
New Mexico, and north of Texas, known
. as the public land stfip: and that for the
e purpose of the execution OF said law:
said public land strip is hereby created ,
Il land district and is attached to the Judi
= cisl district Of Kansas; and the subdIvis.
ional lines Of townships IN said public
land strip may yet be surveyed under cur
It rent appropriations for the surveying
service, and work to be done under tbs
e direction and supervision of the Secretary
f of theEInterior. Until the establishment
= of civil government in said territory
i lands therein may be entered for towI
/, site purposes, for the several use AM
y town sites, by such trustee o
S trustees as may be named by tn
d Secretary of the Interior TO
e that purpose, such entries to be mad
d under the provisions OF section 1887 @
q the Revised Statutes, as near as may be
e and when such entries have been made
o and the Secretary of the Interior shal
provide by regulation for the proper ex
ecution of the trust in favor of the inhsb
itants Of the townsite, including the sur
?. veg into town lots, according to tn
o spirit and intent of said section 1887 c
J. the Revised Statutes, whereby the sam
J. result would be reached as though tn
3. entry had been made by the county Judge
IS and the disposal Of the lots in sue
ID townsite, and the proceeds OF the sal
$. thereof, had been prescribed by the legi!
y. lative authority of state or territory
a. provided that no more than $40 acre
!, shall be embraced in the townsite.
+ A PETITION.
> The following petition is being circula
ted and signed By nearly every one VIII
sees it:
II To Hon. L. Q. c. Lamar, Secretary of the Int
VA rior. Washington, d. c.
OF We, the undersigned, residents and a
es tual settlers upon what is known as "Pu
in lie Land Strip" Ono Man'siLand," "Ne